activity
→
commerce, business
6 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 2734 | busy | → | commerce, business | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | πρᾶξις | |
| meaning 1 | activity | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | trade | |
| reference | LSJ | |
| comment | Also πρηκτήρ 'merchant, vendor, phonetically it is an Ionic form (Homer) | |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | business | |
| meaning 1 | activity, affair, occupation | to stick one's nose into smb.'s business |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | commerce, business | show business |
| reference | ABBYY LINGUO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | Geschäft | |
| meaning 1 | occupation | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | business, commercial activity | |
| reference | Moskal'skaja (ed.) 2001 | |
| comment | From schaffen 'to create, to work, to make' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | дело (delo) | |
| meaning 1 | job, affair, thing | Сделал дело - гуляй смело Once you have finished your business you can have a party |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | business | Открыть свое дело. to open one's business |
| reference | MAS: I, 383 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Swahili | |
| lexeme | amili | |
| meaning 1 | to do, to make, to commit, to fulfil, to act | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to trade | |
| reference | ||
| comment | Polikanov | |
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tagalog | |
| lexeme | negosyo | |
| meaning 1 | occupation, job | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | commerce, business | |
| reference | Krus, Ignašev 1959: 220 | |
| comment | From Spanish negocio | |